Samuel L. Davis
Role at the time: Partner at the firm employing excluded attorney Kelly Conlon
Condemned
Statement summary
Davis calls excluding lawyers because of their employer's litigation collective punishment.
“This whole scheme is a pretext for doing collective punishment on adversaries who would dare sue MSG in their multi-billion dollar network”
Open source (opens in a new tab)Sam Davis challenges MSG's exclusion of lawyersSam Davis statement
NBC New York interviews Kelly Conlon and Sam Davis after Conlon was barred from a Rockettes show. MSG defends its litigation policy and says other members of the group could attend.
Archived copy (opens in a new tab)Why we used this label
Reference point: MSG's policy of excluding lawyers at firms suing it. Davis, a partner at the firm where Kelly Conlon worked, calls the policy a pretext for collective punishment of people who sue MSG. Challenged the characterization loses because Davis rejects the policy itself rather than MSG's description of it.